If anything positive has come from Donald Trump's tawdry presidential run, it's that he's blown open the "both sides" narrative within the media. It's a lot easier to latch onto the (flawed) story that both parties are responsible for the dysfunction in Congress than it is to say there are two sides to Trump's race-baiting of a "Mexican" judge.

As usual, it took a member of the late-night circuit, Seth Meyers, to break through the media's fetish of objectivity. But while Meyers called Trump's comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel "the definition of racism" last night, he also showed clips of buttoned-up media types—Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd foremost among them—doing something close to the same throughout the past week. It seems that interest in telling what's colloquially known as "the truth," rather than simply regurgitating each side's party line, has begun to seep into TV political coverage.

This is a good thing, particularly because Republicans have shown themselves unwilling to call Trump's comments what they are. With the exception of Illinois Senator Mark Kirk—who's facing the fight of his life to win re-election—no one from the Party of Lincoln has withdrawn their support for the Apricot Demagogue. As Meyers reminded us, they have mostly just clumsily dodged questions about it. In the case of their titular leader, Paul Ryan, we learned that Trump's comments were "racist" but that he still had Ryan's support. Nice.

Members of the press can take a stand without being biased, and in this case, it is absolutely necessary for them to do so. There is no other side to this story. Apparently, it still takes comedians to show us that.